KPTV – FOX 12 BEAVERTON, OR (KPTV) – Joe V. was in Beaverton tasting some delicious Japanese baked treats at Oyatsupan Bakers. The new bakery offers traditional Japanese as well as Western baked goods that are made from scratch. The word “oyatsupan” is a mash-up of the Japanese words...

By Matthew Korfhage (Willamette Week) Japan has a baking tradition that goes all the way back to the 16th-century Portuguese. But the Portland area has never seen it until this year. Beaverton’s Oyatsupan Bakers, which opened in May, is devoted to “oyatsu pan” snack breads that might range from...

For most of his life, Hiro Horie was an organization man. He spent 25 years working the Japanese baking giant Pasco, starting on the English muffin line and eventually running the company’s American wholesale operations in Los Angeles and, later, Portland. So it took a lot for the soft-spoken...